20 Most Recent Apple 24" iMac Desktop - Page 9 Questions & Answers

This article at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2320980&tstart=60 should help you, particluarly after the long first query. Hope it helps you.

If you have the hard drive and printer connected simultaneously through a USB hub, it MUST be a powered USB hub (i.e., one with an AC adapter). Could this be your problem?

The plastic parts you mention are referred to as "scissors." I know plenty of places who sell these parts for Mac laptops, but darned if I can find a single source of these parts for separate desktop keyboards. It's possible that the thinking is that it's really not worth expending the labor on a single key when you can buy a whole replacement keyboard for $35; whereas on most current laptops, replacing the keyboard is a major expense.
If you are determined to try this repair yourself, I recommend you visit pbparts.com and examine their laptop scissor units. Maybe you will luck out and find one that is an exact copy of your broken one. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Take a leap of faith.
Plug in your new iMac and turn it on.
You will be welcomed by an introductory movie, and an invitation to learn more about how to use your new system. Take advantage of the invitation.

Apple doesn't even supply an English manual for the iMac. You are expected to use the Help facility on the menu bar to find out how to do whatever it is you are trying to do, whether you are in the Finder or in the various applications. These help documents are provided in numerous languages, including Chinese, which will appear if you operate the system in Chinese.

The Apple-supplied version of Quicktime lacks certain proprietary codecs that belong to other companies. VLC contains these via some licensing arrangement that is not clear to me. You can augment the installed codecs by installing a free package called Perian. Once you have done so, the audio to the files you have already downloaded will probably begin playing just fine.

Do you know for a fact that Bluetooth is at all involved? Try attaching a wired mouse -- if the wired mouse also freezes, the problem does not involve Bluetooth.
Flash is notorious for causing system problems on Macintoshes. Try reinstalling the most recent version of Flash.

bit of honey and lemon should help

Hi,

Go to Home
Then to Account settings
Blocker Users"view list"
It will list ppl you have blocked then you can unblock them.

Please post your feedback and Vote if the problem resolved as per your satisfaction.

When you used the archive and install feature on the installation did you remember to preserve users. If you did not, all you have done is archived the system which will show up as a folder called "Previous System" and none of your files. What I would do is have a look in the users directory the top level of your hard drive and see if there is an archive folder or disk image in there.

hello, please be specific, what kind of problems are you having?

Did you use Time Machine or Disk Utility to backup your system?

Use your Boot OS disks to boot from and remove the file and anything in the start up folder that you dont know what it is. If that doesnt work you may have to reformat.

Download and install the driver from this link. http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=nl&prodNameId=1140780&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=1161389&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=219

The SD card that you tried is likely not the proper size for your iMac, try using tweezers to remove it and perhaps investing in an adapter to the correct size from the one that you tried.

Your hard drive is spinning down and is slow to respond. Some of the old Fujitsu drives were known to do this. I would check your power saving settings in display properties and adjust it so the drive is not powering down.

have you emptied your cache and cookies in your browser?
have you tried another browser?

keyboard: lower case letter or letters stop working I have solved this problem and used it several times successfully. Maybe it'll work for others. In my case, it was the lower case “a”, the only letter that would not register and because my password contains an “a” I could not even restart and log in without a work-around. Tried numerous keyboards, cables, and all the rest. A safe boot fixed the problem so I knew it was a corruption glitch. Short version: I just did this two hours ago - July 18, 2009 - only the second or so time in a year, although it took me a lot of preference experimentation the first time to sniff it out. You learnm quickly how many "a"s there are in an email. I actually had to cut and paste to avoid using the capital A.
In my case, went to my “user/library/preferences” folder and dragged onto the desktop the preference “loginwindow.plist” (not the one that starts "com.apple", at least in my case I didn’t need to get rid of that one). Restart and voila! Problem solved. Trash the old "loginwindow.plist" as a new one is created when you restart and you lose no data. To their credit, Apple was very helpful back when it happened the first time, and it was a real conundrum to them as well. I got lucky that it was not too obscure a problem so I didn't have to go through all the preferences and remove them one by one for hours. I found the guilty party fast. Now ya know! Maybe it'll work for you. And a general thanks to all the good people who write these notes and have saved my sanity many, many times. Finally a chance to pay it forward.

creat a folder and drag all PDF files in the folder.Its very simpler

It sounds like something is either corrupted on your system or one of the files in your imac may be suspect. What I would suggest is get your system disc boot the imac down holding down the c key on your keyboard. Once it is booted up go to the file menu and find the disk utility. Open up the disk utility and first of all repair your disk permissions and then run disk verify and if an error comes up choose to repair it.

If this does not work. I would suggest installing a clean system. Again with the system disk in your computer restart your machine with the c key held down on your keyboard. Choose to do an install but remember to select preserve users. This will give you a clean instal with your files and preferences intact.

Once your machine has restarted it is well worth setting a second account under system preferences under accounts as if one account becomes corrupt in the future you have a second account to fall back on.

For prevention of any problems in the future I would download Onyx from this website http://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/keep-your-mac-running-smoothly-with-onyx/ which also talks you through the method of using it. I use it every month just to keep my mac in tip top condition.

Hope this helps.